Bean-snipper.



Paienied @et 5,1915.

2 SHETS-SHEET l..

@e1/1150i u@ F. WEGNER.

BEAN SNIPPER, APPLICATIN FILED JAN. l0. 1914.

u mm NN TED STATES l Pfr oFFIoE.

FRED WEGNER, oF Mmmm, NEW YORK ASSIGNOR To eno. w. COBB; or NEW YORK, N.Y. v

` 1aNAN-sivrgernia.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented'ot, 1915.

'Application inaaanuary 10, 1914: seriai' No. 811,292.

To whomit may concern.'vv

.5, taken intermediate of the holders on` the Fairport, in the county ofMonroe and State Y i ofNew'York, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements 1n Bean-Snippers; and

Ido hereby declare the following to be a i full, clear, and exactdescription of the same,

tion, and to the reference-numerals marked thereon. i y y l nl This'invention relatesltomdmmsm im,

snipping the ends of string Vbeans as requiredin .preparlng the samelfor market, and like operations.

prime'object of the inventionis--to provide an improved mechanism,simple and ,eiicient in operation adapted to handle the beans rapidly',having them fed intoreceiv- 20 of a shape to promote the straightening.out

and'alining of the beans parallelism and a partV of each holder withwhich the ,beans engage, shownV as the-bottom-thereof, 'is

transversely slidable to one 'side at one portion' ofthe oonveyer traveland toward the 'reference being had to the accompanying4 drawings,forming a 'part ofv this specifica-4 "10 Slmllar reference' numeralsthrough the several igures indicate the same parts. Upon a suitableframework 1, I provide journal bearings 2, 3, for spaced'apart pairssprocket wheels 'being preferably of similar flong. troughlike formwithv upwardly'and outwardly sloping sides, Vand they are prefsize andin horizontal alinementj Upon these 'sprocket wheels I mount conveyerchains 6, 7, supporting between them a series of ybean holders 8, saidholders being secured to the chain linksin any suitable Jmanner. Theseholders are, as shown, of an oberably so spaced on the chains that onthe horizontal stretch thereof the holder sides other side, atasubsequent vportion, to move the beans transversely ofthe line of theoon` veyer movement'into"position to have their.

ends snipped by cutters positioned at the re# spective ends of theholders.

The above and other objectsland features of the invention will be betterunderstood I, from the following detailed description takenfinconnection "with the accompanyingA dra'wing'gs and will thereafter 'bepointed-out 15- in the appended claims.

Referring to the drawings: Figure 1 isa side-elevation of Ia machineconstructed in accrdance .with my invention; Fig- 2 is .a

vplan View thereof; Fig. 3 .is an enlarged 4 is a horizontal section online of Fig.

are in close juxtapositionas seen in Fig. Q.'

These sloping holder tops kare ofa length corresponding to that of thebeans handled which is somewhat less than the distance bebrackets 1'0 ateach side of the framework,

The vlower portions of the holders 8 have their ends cutoutI as' seen at11 and the end openings thus formed are closed along the receivingportion of the conveyor on the topstretchthereof by rails 12, `13carried by the framework'in position to act for this purpose', andforn'iedgto constitute a continua,-

f tion of the vertical holder ends. The bottoms of the holders arevformed, byV transversely 'slidable4 plates 14 having depending pins, 15enga-geablefin .an irregular-groove 16 ,formedlinthe top" of a backingplateA 17 carried bythe fra-mer' The slidingplates l14 rest on thebacking plate 1 7; withinterposed .filling pieces-l8 andvthey areof.ax;1ength1-so vthat when reciprocated by .the action ofthe groove 1 6as Y ver'. .the er1- ft-ire holder bottom*throughot'jthe range ofpins 15entering the irregul presently described they.. Stil recinrooa'ti'on. ld

The beans are deposited in the holders tolWardthe left vhand sideof-thevdevice asv seen in Figs. 1 and 2, and they are moved endWisefirst in one direction and then in the other tohave their ends snipped,by the actionof the movable bottom plates '1l which are reciprocated byirregular groove 16.

For this purposethe groove 16 has an initial I central' straight portion16L adapted to hold the lbottom plates 1l stationary in the beanreceiving position; this grooved portion.

merges into an oblique portionlb adapted to -move the bottom platestoward the observerv in Fig. lor downward in Fig. 2. Correspondinginposition to this oblique groove Iportion the guard rail 12 at one sideof the holder bottomslias an. offset inclined portion 12a makingro'om'and clearance for a shear cutter 19 adapted to coperate with theends of the 'holder sides for snipping on" one end of the beans, thiscutter being suitably fixed to a side of a continuation 12b of the raill2. The oblique groove portion 1Gb with a short interposed portion 16cparallel with the line 'of movement merges i into another obliqueportion'lr1 which acts on the pins 15 to move'the bottom plates 1st fromtheir'ex tremeposition at on:` side, past the center -to an extremeposition attlie other side of bean holders carried thereby preferablyfit the guide brackets 10 quite accurately and asl the holders'have ayguide support on the backing 17 underneath throughout the range ofoperative movement, it will be understood that the shear cutters 19 and2O will act effectively and with certaintyon the ,-beans,L since rtheends of the holder are held closely `guided in operative relationthereto.

rI `here is, of course, no particular significance in having the beanreceiving stretch of the conveyer quite or even nearly horizontal,

V the only desideratuiii in this respect being that this portion of theconveyer have an extension in a horizontal direction either with orwithout a vertical ,direction component, such as to present the beanholders in convenient bean receiving. position, and where I use theexpression horizontally extending and thelike in the claimsit is to betaken with this broader interpretation.

-vlVhile ythe present arrangement with the holder bottoms transverselyvmovable as de scribed, is a practicable and etlicient one, I

desire this. form to be considered as illustrative and as typifying anyconstruction wherein a lmovable part is actuated byk operative vmovementof the holders for transversely alining the beans into position forsnipping of their two ends successively.

Since the above and other features ofthe invention can be inodied fromthe forni shown, without departing from the spirit of the invention 1refer to the appended l claims rather than to the foregoing descrip-'tion to indicate the scope of the invention.l

thereof endwiseirst into operative relation f to one of saidcutters andthen to the otherfor snipping the ends thereof.

2. A bean snipping apparatus comprising a conveyer bearing bean holders,each of said holders having a bean engaging portion therein movabletransversely of the line of conveyer movement, cutters mounted at eachside of said conveyer at separated points along the line of its traveland means for moving said movable holder portions for presenting firstone end of the beans to one of said cutters and thereafter the remainingend to the other cutter.

3. Apparatus of the kind described, comprising a conveyer bearing beanholders extending transversely of the line of the con veyer movement,said holders having transv versely movable lower portions adapted toengage the beans, means for moving said conveyer portions first towardone side of the conveyer from a median line and then toward the other,and cutting means mounted in position to snip first one end ofthe .beansand then the other as they are moved length-wise in said holders.

l. Apparatus of the kind described, comprising an endless conveyer'having a horizontally extending stretch, transversely exT tending beanholders carried by said conveyer, 'said holders having lower portions`movable transversely of the direction of the movable bottoms, a fixedelement having an they are moved endWi-se in' said nolders by irregulargroove engaging aportion of said engagement with said movable bottom pormy movable bottoms to move them transversely tions of the holdersf yfirst toward one side and then toward the FRED WEGNER.

v other of the conveyer as it progresses, Midl shear cutters mounted foreoperation with Witnesses: Y the two ends of the bean holders inposition ANNA P. VVEGNER,

to snip the respective ends of the beans, as WALTER E WEGNER.

